>>>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/06/12/gun-killings-fell-by-40-percent-after-connecticut-passed-this-law/
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>>>>>Gun laws do work??
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>>>>Restrictive gun laws don't correlate to safer cities:
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>>>>http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2014/08/11/restrictive-gun-laws-dont-make-safer-cities
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>>>Utterly nonsense. If you look a the world globe, the countries with restrictive gun laws are far more safer than countries who do not. Almost evry existing statistic point that way. The gun law lobby should come with convincing statistics to explain why the US is so much more violent than any other western countries (except SA).
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>>You do realize that SA is an entire continent :)
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>South Afrika,
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>>There are many countries in the west with higher per capita homicide rates than the U.S.
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>With western countries, I meant countries with a western political (democratic), legal and social orientation. Most of Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand are examples of an often used examples of western countries. South America does not fall under this definition.

South Africa is definitely not in the same socio-economic grouping as Europe, America, etc. It is not a good comparison at all.

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